Late Fall Music Roundup

Here's another bunch of playlists from my weekly radio show, Beef Jerky Time. A few comments:

The Tutankamon and Fruit Bats songs in the 11/11 show are both so Allman Brothers Band!

I'm happy Thao with the Get Down Stay Down have a new album out ("Know Better Learn Faster"). Thao et al. were a memorable part of my 2008.

Fanfarlo and also Ra Ra Riot are on deck for becoming my next obsessions. What I've heard so far is great great stuff and I want more. Please leave a comment if you know more about these 2! (If you're reading this before Christmas '09, go check out Fanfarlo's Advent Calendar on their homepage!)

OMG, new stuff from Yeasayer?! I am still so in love with their song "2080" from 2+ years ago.

I am sorry Alela Diane, but a song called "Pieces of String" will only ever remind me of Monty Python.

The 11/18 show was largely picked by my iTunes. It kept coming up with good stuff and I kept writing it down. I mean, Beck! It's been so long!

I'm glad I managed to get one album from each year of the '00s in the "Albums of the Naughties" show (12/2). I didn't plan it that way. It just worked out. (Here's my "official list" of 00s albums.)

11*11*09

• Perro Loco: Forro in the Dark
• El Tigeraso (Sticky K remix): Maluca
• Total Babe: Barebones
• Don't Dance: Hot Chip
• When We Swam: Thao & the Get Down Stay Down
• Are You Sure: Tutankamon
• The Ruminant Band: Fruit Bats
• Miles from Minnesota: Lower 48
• Hands: The Dutchess & the Duke
• Little Pieces: The Parlour Steps
• Ambling Alp: Yeasayer
• I'm a Pilot: Fanfarlo
• A House is Not a Home: Miike Snow
• Pieces of String: Alela Diane

11*18*09

• New Mate: Figurine
• The Argument: The Sea & Cake
• World Price of Love: New Order
• Wet & Rusting: Menomena
• Tropicalia: Beck
• Pac Man Fever: Sprites
• Visions/Nobody Lost, Nobody Found: Cut Copy
• Can You Tell (The Kids Are Radioactive remix): Ra Ra Riot
• Nadine (Memory Tapes version): Fool's Gold
• First Train Home: Imogen Heap

11*25*09

• Alouette!: Tallest Trees
• Blood: The Middle East
• Careful with that Hat: Citay
• Crumbling Land: Pink Floyd
• This Corrosion: Sisters of Mercy
• Basic Space: The XX
• You Cried Me: Jookabox
• Hope Is a Drug: Gavin Castleton
• Sound of Silver: LCD Soundsystem
• War on War: Wilco
• The Smallest Weird Number: Boards of Canada

12*2*09, in this show I explored "Albums of the Naughties"

• Crawlspace: Beastie Boys (To the 5 Boroughs, 2004)
• Float On: Modest Mouse (Good News for People Who Like Bad News, 2004)
• Over & Over: Hot Chip (The Warning, 2006)
• Milkshake: Kelis (Tasty, 2003)
• Stillness is the Move: Dirty Projectors (Bitte Orca, 2009)
• The Underdog: Spoon (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, 2007)
• Lost Cause: Beck (Sea Change, 2002)
• Counting Stars on the Ceiling: Stars (Nightsongs, 2000)
• Old School Joint: Missy Elliott (Miss E... So Addictive, 2001)
• Campus: Vampire Weekend (Vampire Weekend, 2008)
• Last Living Souls: Gorillaz (Demon Days, 2005)
• Hotel Song: Regina Spektor (Begin to Hope, 2005)